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Kyle Jerro

kjerro@sdsu.eduorcid.org/0000-0002-1467-2524

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, 2024-Present
    Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego State University, San Diego, US
  • Senior Lecturer, 2017-2024
    Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, GB

  • University of Texas
    Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin, US

Profile updated November 3, 2026.

Scholarship

Academic Publications

Meaning or morphology: Individual differences in the categorization of Kinyarwanda nouns
Laurel A. Lawyer; Fate O'Gara; Jean Paul Ngoboka; Willem van Boxtel; Kyle Jerro
Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2024, journal article Cited by 4
Categorization (Linguistics) Kinyarwanda language Morphology Rwanda
Towards a decolonial syntax: Research, teaching, publishing
Hannah Gibson; Kyle Jerro; Savithry Namboodiripad; Kristina Riedel
2023, preprint Cited by 3
Critical pedagogy Decolonization Postcolonialism Scholarly publishing
Applied Objects and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Kyle Jerro
Journal of Linguistics, 2021, journal article Cited by 5
Linguistics Natural language processing (Computer science) Programming languages (Electronic computers) Semantics
STATES AND CHANGES OF STATE: A CROSSLINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE ROOTS OF VERBAL MEANING
Beavers, J.; Everdell, M.; Kyle Jerro; et al.
Language, 2021, journal article Cited by 22
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) Linguistic change Linguistics
Squibs and discussion
Kyle Jerro
Linguistic Inquiry, 2019, journal article Cited by 120
Linguistics Semantics

Change-of-state paradigms and the middle in Kinyarwanda
Kyle Jerro
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2018, journal article Cited by 8
Bantu languages Kinyarwanda language Linguistic change Rwanda
The causative-instrumental syncretism
Kyle Jerro
Journal of Linguistics, 2017, journal article Cited by 153
Causal relations (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general Linguistics Syncretism (Religion)
Person-marked quantifiers in Kinyarwanda
Kyle Jerro; Wechsler, S.
Agreement from a Diachronic Perspective, 2015, book chapter Cited by 6
Bantu languages Kinyarwanda language Linguistics Rwanda